Kalu, Kalu Ndukwe.

State power, autarchy, and political conquest in Nigerian federalism [electronic resource] / Kalu N. Kalu. - Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2008. - xix, 309 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-295) and index.

Analytical frameworks of state formation -- History and evolutionary schisms -- Restless federalism :critical arguments on conflict and governance -- The geopolitics of religion : conflated origins of ethnic crsis -- The praetorian orthodoxy : pathways to civic soldiering -- Rentier politics : the confluence of power and economics -- The garrison state : bridging civil-military transitions -- Elections and electioneering : on the democratic deficit -- The Niger Delta : a platform under duress -- Constitutionalism and political development -- Embedding african democracy and development : the imperative of institutional capital.

9780739129920


Federal government--Nigeria.


Nigeria--Politics and government.


Electronic books.

JQ3086.S8 / K35 2008

320.4669/049